John Lloyd: An animated tour of the invisible
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given by John Lloyd in 2009]
في مؤتمرTED في 2009]
has spent his whole career
بتكريس مهنته
than you think, actually.
everything that matters --
but we can't see what holds them apart,
لكن لا يمكننا رؤية ما يبقيها متباعدة
we see only the skin of things,
نحن نرى ظاهرالأشياء فقط.
we can't see what makes people tick,
ولا يمكننا رؤية ما يحرك الناس
the more it disappears.
كلما بدأ يتلاشى اكثر.
really closely at stuff,
substructure of matter,
المكونة للمادة,
and there is only energy.
ولا يبقى إلّا الطاقة.
about invisibility is,
في الأشياء الخفية
we also can't understand.
لا نستطيع فهمه أيضاً.
and which we don't understand.
والتي لا نفهمها.
of all the four fundamental forces,
الأربعة الأساسية,
knows what it is or why it's there.
أو سبب وجودها فعلاً.
the greatest scientist who ever lived,
أعظم عالم عاش على الأرض
to Earth specifically
on that one, I don't know.
في هذا, لا أدري.
لكن ليس لدي فكرة عمّا تفكرون به.
I've no idea what any of you are thinking.
each other's minds,
قراءة أفكار بعضنا,
taste each other,
وتذوق بعضنا
but we can't read each other's minds.
لا نستطيع قراءة أفكار بعضنا.
this great Middle Eastern religion
تلك الديانة العظيمة في الشرق
is the root of all religions,
أساس كل الديانات,
all telepaths, so they say,
to the rest of us that it doesn't exist.
لها وجود لباقي الناس .
the Sufi masters working on us.
وأن الأولياء الصوفيون يخدعوننا.
and artificial intelligence,
like the study of consciousness,
الوعي كذلك حقيقةً
how consciousness works.
عن طريقة عمل الوعي.
artificial intelligence,
ذكاءً اصطناعياً فحسب,
artificial stupidity.
eternal, omnipresent, all powerful.
وقهّارة.
not a materialist, I'm an immaterialist.
مادياً بل أنا معنوي,
new word -- ignostic.
هي الأغنوسطية.
on whether God exists
الكلمة بشكل مناسب.
is the human genome.
هو سلسلة الجينات البشرية,
because about 20 years ago
they thought it would probably contain
أنها على الأغلب ستكون
it's been revised downwards.
to be just over 20 thousand genes
حوالي 20 ألف جين فقط
because rice -- get this --
two more than people,
وهي أكثر باثنين من الموجودة عند البشر,
but they are very strange.
لكنها غريبة جداً.
think that's fascinating.
the less you can see.
قلت قدرتكم على الرؤية.
for the figures.
except in your memory.
things about the past
what I was like when I was two?
أبدو عندما كان عمري سنتين؟"
earlier than the age of two or three.
قبل عمر السنتين أو الثلاثة,
because otherwise they'd be out of a job.
وإلّا لكانوا عاطلين عن العمل,
is the grid on which we hang.
هي البنية التي تجعلنا نستمر.
that cells are continually renewed.
تتجدد باستمرار.
nails, that kind of stuff --
النوع من الأمور..
is replaced at some point.
take a bit longer.
تأخذ وقتاً أطول,
not one cell in your body
لن تكون هناك خلية في جسمكم
seven years ago.
who then are we? What are we?
ولا أحد سيستطيع رؤيتها أبداً.
than the wavelength of light.
mentioned 1600 recently.
حديثاً في عام 1600.
by a Dutch chemist called van Helmont.
يدعى فان هلمونت.
invention of a word by a known individual.
called "blas," meaning astral radiation.
التي تعني شعاع نجمي,
في مكان,
you won't see it.
will disagree with this.
بعض الفيزيائيين,
the beam of light,
رؤية شعاع الضوء,
they understand electricity, they don't.
الكهرباء, لأنه لا يفهمها.
in an electric wire move instantaneously
بشكل آني في سلك كهربائي.
at the speed of light,
عشوائياً بالسلك,
honey, they say.
Hundred billion.
galaxies, with the naked eye.
مجرة بالعين المجردة.
unless you've got very good eyesight.
كان لديكم نظر جيد جداً.
radio waves, in 1887,
موجات الراديو عام 1887
because they radiated.
تشع (راديو تعني مشع).
"What's the point of these, Heinrich?
that you've found?"
a use for them someday.
منها في يوم ما.
to us is what we don't know.
هي الأشياء التي لانعرفها.
of one millionth about anything."
بالمليون عن أي شيء."
"What's another thing we can't see?"
"ما الشيء الآخر الذي لايمكننا رؤيته؟"
really worth asking.
أن نسألهما حقاً:
we do about it while we are?"
you with, from two great philosophers,
من فيلسوفين عظيمين,
thinkers of the 20th century.
في القرن العشرين.
and the other a poet.
in order to enjoy ourselves."
W.H. Auden, one of my favorite poets,
أحد شعرائي المفضلين
on Earth to help others.
الأرض لمساعدة الآخرين.
are here for, I've no idea."
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
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Why you should listen
John Lloyd seems to have known every brilliant and funny person in Britain, and his collaborations are legendary. He's been a fixture on the BBC for four decades, producing such classic comedies as Blackadder, Spitting Image, the BBC's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and lately QI (short for "Quite Interesting"), hosted by Stephen Fry (read his Reddit AMA about it).
Lloyd has also written more than a dozen funny books -- including The Meaning of Liff, a collaboration with his friend Douglas Adams, which has been in print for 26 years.
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